Motion Adaptation Leads to Parsimonious Encoding of Natural Optic Flow by Blowfly Motion Vision System

Motion adaptation leads to parsimonious encoding of natural optic flow by blowfly motion vision system.

Neurons sensitive to visual motion change their response properties during prolonged motion stimulation. These changes have been interpreted as adaptive and were concluded, for instance, to adjust the sensitivity of the visual motion pathway to velocity changes or to increase the reliability of encoding of motion information. These conclusions are based on experiments with experimenter-designed...

On the computations analyzing natural optic flow: quantitative model analysis of the blowfly motion vision pathway.

For many animals, including humans, the optic flow generated on the eyes during locomotion is an important source of information about self-motion and the structure of the environment. The blowfly has been used frequently as a model system for experimental analysis of optic flow processing at the microcircuit level. Here, we describe a model of the computational mechanisms implemented by these ...

Encoding of naturalistic optic flow by a population of blowfly motion-sensitive neurons.

In sensory systems information is encoded by the activity of populations of neurons. To analyze the coding properties of neuronal populations sensory stimuli have usually been used that were much simpler than those encountered in real life. It has been possible only recently to stimulate visual interneurons of the blowfly with naturalistic visual stimuli reconstructed from eye movements measure...

University of Groningen Encoding of Naturalistic Optic Flow by a Population of Blowfly Motion-Sensitive Neurons

Statistics of optic flow for self-motion through natural scenes

Image analysis in the visual system is well adapted to the statistics of natural scenes. Investigations of natural image statistics have so far mainly focused on static features. We present a method to investigate the statistics of natural optic flow fields related to self-motion within natural scenes and present first results of a statistical analysis.